Landscape, Natural Beauty and the Arts

Book Overview

A distinguished group of scholars here probes the complex structure of aesthetic responses to nature in a discussion enriched with insights from art history, literary criticism, geography and philosophy. Exploring the interrelation among nature, beauty and art, they show that natural beauty is impregnated with concepts derived from the arts and from particular accounts of nature. The distinction and relation between art and nature are questioned,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521558549
• ISBN13: 9780521558549
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"